Pure L wrote:

m.koren wrote:

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:Helps if you got a dog.

Yes, and I can't think of any other use for it except as some sort of territorial statement which I find to be... Crap.

Did you vote crap on the fresh fruit thread too?

No, I did not.

And sorry for not being more specific, but I was thinking more along the lines of a typical white picket fence and not some solid, eight to ten-foot high fortress-type wall. I would vote NC on the latter IF there were neighbor issues.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Fences are like frames. They make the yard look solid. I like fences in rural settings especially.

It's always nice to have a fence on the property line should there be the awesome neighbor that wants to build a 2-story garage 3 feet over it.

In comparison to hedges, fences rule. I have just spent the morning and most of my Sunday afternoon cutting back hedges and then cleaning up on the debris.
I know this is all pointless. Hedges don't stop. The more attention you pay them, the more they grow. They are like a Rick Reuben thread on a holiday weekend. They have thorns and they make me sneeze.

I'm not allowed to cut them down completely because "They look nice" and ",you know, they are kind of green".

I'd love a nice fence. I'd love to smell creosote in the morning.

Fences: Not crap.
Hedges: Cunts.

I'm neither for or against fences.

Cranius wrote:I'm neither for or against fences.

I see what you did there!

Fences (of max legal height - 6') around typical (long/thin) Victorian terrace gardens are an abomination, as my wife and I discovered when our previous, typically self-centred, North London neighbours put some up, thus consigning our garden to perpetual darkness.

Total CRAP. Fuck you, ex-neighbours.

Sunshine > privacy. Our current (again Victorian) set-up with waist-high red-brick walls is infinitely superior.

Up until six months ago I would have said CRAP but now they are officially NOT CRAP in my book.

1) we got a dog

2) We discovered we have a psychotic alcoholic dickbag for a neighbor.

busbus wrote:I had one installed as to shield my bad behavior from the NACSAR neighbor. It's a nice big privacy fence and I thought about painting his side of it the colors of the gay rainbow.

I have thought about spray painting 'CUNT' on the side of my garage that faces his house.

Also, a fence will keep the kids from using your yard as "the cut-through yard" on their BMX bikes... depending on how you are located, this can be essential if you dislike muddy ruts in your yard.

(As BMX-bike-riding youngsters, we were always quite aware of which yards did and did not have fences for the quick getaway purposes, or just for sheer laziness purposes...)

WF: CRAP - if you have nasty-ass cyclone fence surrounding your front yard:



ICK.

I have a high hedge and a a six foot wall. I like them both. I live on a corner.